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Who did the anthrax attack?
Who did the Anthrax attack?Recently, the democrats have been hitting the âBush Liedâ mantra hard and heavy. The basic argument is: âMaybe Bush didnât say Saddam and al-quaida-9/11 are connected, but he made people think they were because so many people think they were connected.â I think there is another reason why people think Saddam and 9/11 were connected. Itâs called common sense. It has been years now since the 9/11 attack and the near simultaneous anthrax attack. Who did the anthrax attack? What do we know now compared to what we knew at the time of the attacks? Almost nothing new. We have had years of the FBI going after American defense scientists. Let me clarify that: The FBI has been pursuing U.S. citizens with high level clearances, years of professional experience and demonstrated loyalty to this country. The FBI has found nothing. What do we, the public know about the anthrax attack? This became public knowledge after the attack to anyone who could read a webpage. 1. We know the anthrax came from U.S. labs. We also know the labs released this strain to foreign countries for research. We also know it takes a strain that has particular characteristics that make it useful for weaponizing. Not any old anthrax will do. 2. We know from media sources that weaponizing anthrax can not be done by Joe Blow in his kitchen. We know it takes expensive, specialized equipment. We also know it takes a serious education in bio-warfare. 3. We know, and most people realized immediately, that Saddam had the capability to create it, weaponize anthrax because he had previously done so, and AQ had the ability to smuggle it in and release it. To sum up: most Americans realized immediately that Saddam could make it and AQ wouldnât hesitate to use it. Why wouldnât they? Therefore, there was a link and most of us believed it. So, most people at the time (everyone that I knew) believed the anthrax attacks were a continuing, near simultaneous attack with the plane hijackings. My military friends even found reason to believe this was a version of the combined arms attack, a fundamental of modern warfare. But then, enter the FBI. To understand the motives of the FBI, we must look at their responsibilities. Before 9/11, they were the chief counterterrorism agency for attacks in the U.S. That means they blew it big on 9/11. But, with video of the perps, there was absolutely no way for the FBI to cover up their failure and AQ success, not to imply they wanted to. I think they took it on the chin like they should have. Now enter the anthrax attack. Was this another successive terrorist attack from abroad targeting the U.S. from AQ? Another FBI failure? What would happen to the counterterrorism branch of the FBI if it were discovered AQ hit us twice with simultaneous attacks? Sort of makes me think that this counterterrorism function would have been ripped away and handed to another branch of government. So, it is not so hard to see that jobs were on the line here, careers even. So, the FBI focused its investigation on a U.S. scientist because he supposedly padded his resume? This so soon after the high profile Richard Jewel fiasco? Didnât they just learn a tough lesson about perp walking a guy before they had hard facts? Yet they consistently had the media covering their investigation of a U.S. scientist. For anyone working at a government facility, you know that after 9/11, the security was tight. It is hard to believe that a scientist could have snuck out weaponized anthrax after 9/11. So this means they would have had to have it lying around at home before 9/11. But waiting for what? For AQ to attack the WTC? This doesnât make sense in any way. Anybody get the picture yet? The FBI knew it would lose part of its reason to exist, careers, and respect if AQ did the anthrax attack. So they went after a U.S. scientist. And after about 3 years of this and the media extolling the lack of concrete evidence, people are now convinced that Saddam and AQ had no link and nothing to do with the anthrax attack. Now I ask, do you find it easier to believe that a cleared, professional, educated, patriotic, U.S. scientist did this attack. Or Saddam, who did have anthrax, could have given some to an AQ agent? What makes more sense, unless you have another theory? Posted by: Ray Robison 2005-11-29 |
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